Female Badasses in History

The movie obviously isn't for viewers who like their history sugarcoated. It seems very realistic, and reality can be awful. In particular, the prison scenes near the end are depressing. One can easily get upset on watching the prison wards strap down the hunger strikers and force-feed them through their noses. I wouldn't say these scenes are sensational. They're a necessary plot element: It was the national outrage over the women's treatment 'for violating traffic laws' that ultimately pushed public opinion over the edge. But I agree that prescreening is probably a good idea.

Thomas... isn't Sozlet like 9 years old?

She is. Incidentally, that's the age at which both my sister A. and I read the diary of Anne Frank -- also not a book for fans of sugar-coated literature. We did get upset about numerous things, obviously. But the book was a page-turner then, and we're still grateful today that we read it early in our lives. So, Iron-Jawed Angels may be appropriate for Sozlet, or it may be not. Hence the suggestion to pre-screen.

Helen Keller.

Oh, Robert got that already.
How about Boudica? There's a film coming out this year in the US apparently.

Did anybody mention Wally Funk yet? I hope she makes it to space in her life.

http://www.ninety-nines.org/index.cfm/wally_funk.htm

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And there's even a whipping scene!!!
Oh wait...Sozlet is only nine.
Boudicca is a very interesting woman, though.

You really think so? We don't really know much about her, other than the bald facts of how she and her daughters were treated by an idiot Roman official, and how she reacted, in a general way. Anything anyone has written that you've read about her as a person is purely speculation.

Update:

Alice Paul it is! I selected your answer ebrown, thanks.

Sozlet went to the library yesterday to get some source materials and the (very cool) librarian was impressed by her choice. Very Cool Librarian was a women's studies major and proved to be a pretty good source herself as well as pointing sozlet to some good books.

<<grins>>

I hope Sozlet has a fun time with this.

Cool beans! Sozlet the suffragette can pick up her ERA button here!

Cool! Have you had time to screen the movie yet?

Boadicea, female leader of a large band/mob of Britons (70,000) who went on a rampage against Roman outposts and towns in Britain during the Roman occupation (first four centuries A.D.) and finally faced a Roman legion of 7,000 with diastrous results for Bodacea and her army.

I just had to highlight this. I'll send it to my mother, a (Retired) Very Cool Librarian.

Josiphine Baker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman

hardcore bitch



no excuses

Very good choice. I hope she does well on her project.

Anyone mention Annie Sullivan? and then there was Woodrow Wilson's second wife who ran the country when he was so ill.

Soooo .... any new chapters in the story of Sozlet, Alice, and the cool librarian?

Not quite. She's still in research mode, and keeps saying things starting with "Did you know that...??" and ending with some new injustice that women had to endure back then.

She's always been sort of a girl-power kind of kid, she's gotten even more into it now though. (She's been playing football at recess -- the only girl in her school to do so -- and when a snotty boy said "girls don't play football" she said "oh REALLY" and threw a touchdown to her pal Sam over snotty boy's head. I realize this sounds very after-school-special but there are witnesses.) I think it's at the point where I need to talk her down a bit in fact. ("Very true, things sucked back then, and I'm so grateful to Alice Paul and people like her for making things better for us. However...")

Stagecoach Mary Fields

http://www.helium.com/items/1653609-stagecoach-mary-fields

Also the first black female millionaire - Walker is her last name.